Deploying web apps for new developers on AWS

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I've been a code school instructor for the last several years and I see a ton of awesome going on right now in the teaching/development world. Code-schools, sites dedicated to teaching like Udemy, free, online tools like codeacedemy and youtube, etc. Through all these different mediums available anyone can learn… a convenience store manager, a housewife, a nerdy high schooler, or a bro-grammer; without any experience or a 4-year commitment to college, anyone can learn how to code and before you know it you've made something awesome. The problem I'm seeing in this phase, in my students and elsewhere, is that the no one's getting all the way there. Setting up a development environment and building a project is 95+% of the process for a beginner and that's happening, but everyone is focusing on just that part because it's the main part. Unfortunately no one ever gets you the last 5% of the journey. Actually getting your code out on the web is a very overlooked thing.

Yes, there are plenty of tools on devops, but there needs to be a resource available that's specific for developers, to teach them to do what they need to do. Junior and mid-level developers don't need to be proficient in docker, chef, cloud foundry and all the tools of AWS/Azure, they just need to be able to maneuver around a server to get things done. That is what I aim to accomplish in this course.